Sunday, August 5, 2012
Titillating titles, madcap musicals and Shakespeare, either straight up (another "Twelfth Night") or twisted ("Pulp Shakespeare," a mash-up of the Bard and Quentin Tarantino): Yes, the New Y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:41PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
Provocation isn't easy. The guys from "South Park" and "The Book of Mormon" make it look that way, but it's really not.
Case in point: The new musical "The Last Smoker in America," which tr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PM[SHARE]Mikhail Baryshnikov may be the star of "In Paris," but there's no dancing here, just a bit of mimed bullfighting " choreographed by American Ballet Theatre's Alexei Ratmansky " as striking a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Every year, the "Summer Shorts" series introduces six new American one-act plays. While the three pieces in this season's first batch are, by definition, brief, two are so slow that you may …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
"Don't worry," Mike Tyson told us, "you'll leave with two ears tonight, I promise."
Which is more than Evander Holyfield got, but at least he wasn't in the audience Tuesday night for "Mike T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AM[SHARE]Imagine a musical called "Twilight" that had generic vampires instead of Bella and Edward. That's pretty much what happens with "Bring It On " The Musical," which has little in common with t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2012
Ask anybody about great but gone music venues in New York, and they'll go on and on about CBGB, the Fillmore East, Max's Kansas City and the Savoy Ballroom.
But the Continental Baths? Thoug…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
Don't kick yourself if you've never heard of "New Girl in Town." Only a regular at Marie's Crisis or another show-tune piano bar would know this 1957 musical. Bob Merrill's genial score didn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
A political campaign is great background for a play. And the vetting of a candidate is particularly juicy: After all, you're dealing with someone's potentially explosive past, and the tempta…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2012
It's not often that a Chekhov play is almost drowned by laughter.
Yet that's exactly what happens at the Sydney Theatre Company's "Uncle Vanya," which just opened at City Center as part of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:47PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
It hits you when the angel puppet with the Queen fixation starts warbling "We Will Rock You": The Lincoln Center Festival brings us shows from all over the world for its annual showcase, and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM[SHARE]When in doubt, just throw stuff. It's a tried-and-true approach, and "Re-Animator: The Musical" revels in it.
The first four rows of the theater are covered in plastic. Seats aren't assigne…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Here's a new show that has a lot going for it, including a wonderful performance by star Lindsay Mendez and swift staging by Joe Mantello ("Wicked," "Other Desert Cities").
But "Dogfight," w…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2012
Besides an ode to bodacious bosoms, Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant" features white slavery, lesbianism and a heroine who desperately " and unsuccessfully " tries to get laid.
Yet despite all t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
It may be a sweltering July, but you get the sense that "Fela!" would have the sweatiest cast on Broadway no matter the season. These guys work so incredibly hard that they're glistening wit…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
There's no getting around the unrelenting misery of "DruidMurphy." Made up of three plays by Irish playwright Tom Murphy " unknown in the US but much admired at home " this is one of the mos…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
Near the beginning of "Macbeth," a character observes, "Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?"
It's a line the creators of this production, which just opened at th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2012
Not only is "Terminator Too " Judgment Play" a cheap ticket, but that $25 includes a free beer. By all means, cash in: This is the kind of show that's definitely better with beer goggles. Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
Every so often, a show comes along that polarizes critics and audiences alike. Right now, "3C" is that show.
Some reviewers, including myself and the New Yorker's John Lahr, loved this shar…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
'Triassic Parq " The Musical," which just opened at the SoHo Playhouse, sticks to an approach familiar to anyone who's ever attended the New York International Fringe Festival.
Proudly cheap…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:55PM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Broadway is said to bet on stars. Well, yes and no. Look at the long-running hits: Do you know who's in "Wicked" or "Jersey Boys" right now? At the same time, casting is key to the equation,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
Leslie Hendrix spent 19 seasons playing medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers on all four "Law & Order" series. You'd think playwright Jim Henry would have asked the star of his new thriller fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
'come and knock on our door/We've been waiting for you . . ." Although the names have been changed, the premise of the new off-Broadway show "3C" will be familiar to anybody with a passing k…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Shakespeare in the Park is turning 50 this year, and its new production of "As You Like It" is a great gift to itself " and us.
Something special is happening here: The parts may not all be …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Whether you like them or not, the Amoralists' gritty shows are like no other " thanks mostly to resident playwright Derek Ahonen's distinctive mix of hyper-realism and satire, brash violence…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:30PM[SHARE]Martha Gellhorn was a bold, opinionated woman. Fearless, too: She worked as a war correspondent and married Ernest Hemingway. Then she dumped him.
Now, 14 years after her death, Gellhorn is…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
It's about depression, boredom, thwarted ambition and hopeless loves. And it's one of the most popular plays in New York.
Indeed, not a year goes by without someone taking a stab at Chekhov…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2012
Few things on Broadway are as old-fashioned as "Harvey." And it's not just because Mary Chase's play is from 1944 " plenty of older works have more edge than this butter knife of a show.
Wha…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
Abi Morgan is hot right now. Last year alone, this Englishwoman wrote the high-profile movies "Shame" and "The Iron Lady" and created the critically acclaimed miniseries "The Hour…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
It took a whopping seven writers, four directors and three producers to come up with "We Play for the Gods." But rather than an embarrassment of riches, this new show by the Women's Project …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]There are two things you should know about "Rapture, Blister, Burn." It's about feminism, and it's fun.
Plays that focus on any kind of -ism tend to provoke a recoil reflex: Who goes to the …
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